The ruling—resting on the First Circuit’s existing precedent—is a win for states seeking to maintain restrictions on certain firepower following the Supreme Court’s 2022 ruling in New York State Rifle & Pistol Ass’n, Inc. v. Bruen, which created a framework that analyzed firearms law through the eyes of the nation’s founders.

The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld a judgment in favor of a company against its former vice president/general counsel requiring that the defendant repay the entire amount he received for his services over a 14-month period, the damages being based on his post-termination conduct including representation of a vendor of his ex-employer in connection with a dispute over an agreement he had negotiated.

A mother’s gifts totaling more than $1.8 million over a 10-year period did not constitute “income” to be taken into account in assessing child support to be paid to be paid to the daughter by her ex-husband because the payments were not steady and certain ones, the Court of Appeal for this district has held, adding that an order that “huge” sums be returned to the former spouse was improper because woman doesn’t have the money.

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